Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

The band structure and electronic properties of a material are defined by the sort of
elements, the atomic registry in the crystal, the dimensions, the presence of spin–orbit …

Spin-hosting graphene nanostructures are promising metal-free systems for elementary
quantum spintronic devices. Conventionally, spins are protected from quenching by …

Carbon, as an indispensable chemical element on Earth, has diverse covalent bonding
ability, which enables construction of extensive pivotal carbon-based structures in multiple …

Controllable ring-opening of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons plays a crucial role in various
chemical and biological processes. However, breaking down aromatic covalent C–C bonds …

The power of surface chemistry to create atomically precise nanoarchitectures offers
intriguing opportunities to advance the field of quantum technology. Strategies for building …

Halogen bonds, characterized by directionality, tunability, hydrophobicity, and variable
sizes, are ideal noncovalent interactions to design and control the formation of self …

The application of fluorene and its derivatives has been established in last decade,
particularly showing the fabrication of blue polymer, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) …

Isolated flat bands are known to host various strongly correlated phases due to the
enhanced Coulomb interactions when the flat bands are gapped from dispersive bands …

Chemical reactions of organic molecules on the metal surface have been intensively
investigated in the past decades, where the metal plays the role of catalyst in many cases. In …